tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post7586761223964153418..comments2019-09-13T19:47:25.752-04:00Comments on Hardcore Gaming 101 - Blog: GamesTM and the State of CastlevaniaDiscoalucardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04206257399887664488noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-12249554940156116722010-07-15T13:24:46.945-04:002010-07-15T13:24:46.945-04:00Not to kiss your butt, but I could not agree more ...Not to kiss your butt, but I could not agree more with everything you said.RegalX7noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-31258632162497608412010-07-13T11:47:32.328-04:002010-07-13T11:47:32.328-04:00Isin&#39;t the wiiware castlevania a semi remake o...Isin&#39;t the wiiware castlevania a semi remake of castlevania II?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-73009611661647799142010-07-11T23:44:26.690-04:002010-07-11T23:44:26.690-04:00Castlevania is a long running series. It doesn&#39...Castlevania is a long running series. It doesn&#39;t need to die off. The radical reinvention the console games have been taking haven&#39;t been doing much good either? My suggestion? First, Konami should lay off the Castlevania games....But not forever, or even until the end of this console generation. Maybe 2-3 years. Maybe a remake of Castlevania II (with the obvious better translation, graphics, music, overall design) with the final castle being the entirety of Castlevania 1. Maybe a combination of Rondo Of Blood and Symphony Of The Night. Or maybe neither of these, I&#39;m not sure if these are the best of ideas. Annyways, they should take that time to work on some other games (maybe 2D Metroidvanias that are distanced from the Castlevania series so they can feel free to inject some freshness). Then, after that time, they should think about how they can make a new console 2D Castlevania, while making it just as relevant as the original, Super Castlevania IV, or Symphony Of The Night (although I think SotN wasn&#39;t like by the press when it came out, so that may be a bad example). They could do so much with a console that they may not have the budget to do on a handheld.Anup Chagamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18146959319739288607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-16344678148476496712010-07-10T12:15:35.475-04:002010-07-10T12:15:35.475-04:00the only castlevania games i&#39;ve played are the...the only castlevania games i&#39;ve played are the three gba ones, and i liked them. maybe because they were very metroid like (another game series i really enjoyed) or maybe it was just the combination of exploring platformer and grinding equiping rpg elements.<br /><br />i&#39;d play the ds games if i had a ds, though i&#39;ve tried the original arcadey platformers and didn&#39;t like them much.<br /><br />one thing i didn&#39;t like is the huge amount of story aswell as the rather odd attempts to &#39;freshen&#39; the game. some gimmicks work, some don&#39;t and some (like the terrible fighter on wii) don&#39;t work in the slightest. though the new puzzler one looks interesting.<br /><br />prehaps instead of trying all these new things and attempting to expand the game in ways it&#39;s not meant to be, they should just make a new game that is like the gba games but with a bigger castle/s and beter graphics, maybe even hidden goodies everywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-15573558690942107652010-07-10T03:56:53.766-04:002010-07-10T03:56:53.766-04:00I lost interest around the time of the first DS re...I lost interest around the time of the first DS release.l Despite completing it I can&#39;t even remember its name.<br /><br />I really like IGA though, a lot. He&#39;s awesome. He says stuff like: introduce your children to 2D sprite based games so future generations can appreciate them and they don&#39;t die out.<br /><br />An anecdote in the relaunch EGM spoke of how some executive who grew up with the NES was loving the hell out of Megaman 9/10, but his kids who only knew polygons couldn&#39;t relate to or grasp the games at all. I can&#39;t stomach Atari 2600 games, having grown up with a Famicom.<br /><br />IGA might be the hero classic gamers don&#39;t realise they need. At the very least, I&#39;m extremely pleased he&#39;s still working in games development. I just wish they&#39;d give him a budget and freedom to work on new IP.Sketczhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02333200178515493705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-92224274829660688672010-07-10T03:41:32.918-04:002010-07-10T03:41:32.918-04:00I&#39;d like to see them make another game in the ...I&#39;d like to see them make another game in the style of Castlevania 2. The only real problem with Castlevania 2 is that many of the clues given to you re so cryptic that it&#39;s head-bangingly difficult to figure out what to do next without outside help, and that&#39;s an easy mistake to avoid making again.<br /><br />The core game was great, though! You had a big, connected world filled with interesting areas, villages, dungeons, and secrets to uncover. It combined the best of Castlevania with the best of games like Zelda or Legacy of the Wizard, and I think it deserves to be revisited.Feynmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-69138595948339257132010-07-10T01:59:43.766-04:002010-07-10T01:59:43.766-04:00I beat the original Castlevania for the first time...I beat the original Castlevania for the first time a few hours ago. I was amazed by the atmosphere the game created and the gradient of difficulty it presented. You learn how to fight enemies individually early in the game and then deal with swarms of them later. It makes for a challenge, but it&#39;s definitely a fun challenge.<br /><br />I sort of want to play more of this kind of game via Castlevania III, but I am intrigued by Order of Ecclesia. Any suggestions on which to tackle first?mrbuu82http://www.twitter.com/gogogoldbergnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-74968052484094550952010-07-09T23:30:55.642-04:002010-07-09T23:30:55.642-04:00That&#39;s sort of what Castlevania Rebirth tried ...That&#39;s sort of what Castlevania Rebirth tried to do...except its levels were too long and its graphics were....well, not bad, but felt cobbled together.Discoalucardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04206257399887664488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-8325007379927773142010-07-09T23:22:05.494-04:002010-07-09T23:22:05.494-04:00Perhaps the Mega Man 9/10 route...playing up the g...Perhaps the Mega Man 9/10 route...playing up the game&#39;s old school roots might be a better direction for this series. Something &quot;Nintendo Hard&quot;, but with a short and sweet level design as a down-loadable game for 8-10 dollars USD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135815543912646655.post-45619588382519915532010-07-09T22:44:54.805-04:002010-07-09T22:44:54.805-04:00I agree with you about Ecclesia; it was better tha...I agree with you about Ecclesia; it was better than what they&#39;ve been doing, but it still wasn&#39;t as good as internet communities make it out to be. But maybe it really is time for this series to die. I just recently finished Curse of Darkness and, while the 3D games DO retain the feeling of a Metroidvania, I found myself comparing them to Devil May Cry and how that series is much better (and they also have elements of Metroidvanias, go figure!).9inchsamurainoreply@blogger.com